David Lynch

David Lynch has all ways used sound to great effect in his films and he once said that "Films are 50 percent visual and 50 percent sound. Sometimes sound even overplays the visual." I think a perfect example of his use of sound is at the beginning of his film 'Blue Velvet'. He starts by showing familiar shots of suburbia, kids crossing the road, a man watering his garden etc... whilst the song 'Blue Velvet' by Bobby Vinton plays. Then as a man suffers some sort of seizure and falls down on the lawn the camera moves down into the grass and we see beetles scurrying around in the undergrowth as the song subtly morphs into a horrible low frequency sound before cutting abruptly to a sign with the name of the town and woman smiling. This to me this is a kind of an overview for the whole film, underneath this seemingly pleasant town there is a dark underworld. You can watch the opening to the film here